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Publication HistoryBM (1945), 135, from the set (D), with the first three words of line 2 as the last of line 1 and the alternative adopted for lines 11-12. Bingham, New England Quarterly, 28 (September 1955), 298, from the draft to Higginson (A), with the alternatives adopted. Poems (1955), 855-56 (A,B,D principal; without [C]); CP (1960), 541 (D). Letters (1958), 481 (A). Higgins, American Literature, 38 (March 1966), 10 ([C]), from the Todd transcript. MB (1981), 1273-74 (D), in facsimile. (J1229). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1183A). -History from Franklin Variorum 1998

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Four (three in part, one lost), variant, about 1870 and 1871. The surviving texts, whether in manuscript or transcript, including the three-stanza version copied into Set 8a, are related to an early draft no longer extant that consisted of three stanzas beginning "Because he loves her." This draft was destroyed, as was ed's custom, when the set copy was recorded.

BM (1945), 135, from the set (D), with the first three words of line 2 as the last of line 1 and the alternative adopted for lines 11-12. Bingham, New England Quarterly, 28 (September 1955), 298, from the draft to Higginson (A), with the alternatives adopted. Poems (1955), 855-56 (A,B,D principal; without [C]); CP (1960), 541 (D). Letters (1958), 481 (A). Higgins, American Literature, 38 (March 1966), 10 ([C]), from the Todd transcript. MB (1981), 1273-74 (D), in facsimile. (J1229)